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Bust Rodd posted:The Olsen twins thing, like the bird that eats chips, is apparently funny to some but just a completely dead gag that Oliver insists on running into the ground that just floats by me without a giggle, forever. Cool.
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Milo and POTUS posted:This was the highlight though I didn't even spot it, what was it?
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Sep 24, 2018 17:26
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Surprised it got such a reserved reaction.
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I'm pretty sure calling Democrats "demon rats" has been a thing for a long time, at least in online racist circles. It's definitely not the first time I've heard of it.
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Sep 24, 2018 17:47
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I think one of the most depressing things about this is how few Americans seem to realize that most democratic nations DON'T do this. Hell, in a lot of countries you can still vote WHILE IN PRISON. even that one guy who literally detonated a car-bomb right in the centre of our government offices and shot several teenaged youth party members didn’t lose the right to vote (even though there's a law that actually opens up for a temporary revoke of his rights) and I’m weirdly proud of that fact
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I liked the Toad hiding in the credits. I forget where
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ulvir posted:even that one guy who literally detonated a car-bomb right in the centre of our government offices and shot several teenaged youth party members didn’t lose the right to vote (even though there's a law that actually opens up for a temporary revoke of his rights) and I’m weirdly proud of that fact Same. In Australia the only limitation is that people actively serving a 3+ year sentence lose the right to vote (but regain it once they leave prison). If you're inside serving a sentence under three years, you're still required to vote.
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Afro posted:I'm pretty sure calling Democrats "demon rats" has been a thing for a long time, at least in online racist circles. It's definitely not the first time I've heard of it. I can believe that. It's ...such a bad zinger. I'd just be sad to have 'demon rat' yelled at me by an angry cracker.
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The way she emphasizes it to the camera is very much something a cringey old person would do to seem cool.
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Sep 26, 2018 16:58
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I think it'd be very interesting to juxtapose the way Facebook has been in Myanmar with how so many tech companies bend over and go full Orwell when China asks them to.ZorajitZorajit posted:I can believe that. It's ...such a bad zinger. I'd just be sad to have 'demon rat' yelled at me by an angry cracker. There have been so many attempts to make some kind of clever insult out of the Democratic party's name, and all of them are terrible. And yet somehow I have heard zero attempts to do the same to the Republican party, and even most people still use the term GOP to refer to them, which is the republican party's cutesy little nickname for itself.
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Sep 26, 2018 17:20
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Gee Oh Pee already has a kind of unpleasant sound to it. I've heard 'republicunts' too, but since there's only like six women left in the party it falls a little flat. More often, I just hear people using the phrase "The Democrat Party" disparaging which isn't so much disparaging as just kind of vaguely annoying and halting sound.
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Sep 26, 2018 18:35
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Gee Oh Pee already has a kind of unpleasant sound to it. I've heard 'republicunts' too, but since there's only like six women left in the party it falls a little flat. The most common pejorative I hear for Democrats is "Dems" at the higher end of the etiquette scale (I can't remember the last time I saw "Dems" used in anything but a negative comment about the party or its supporters), and "libtards" at the... uh, not-so-high end of the etiquette scale. I have to say, though, watching that irritating woman say "demon rats" with not only a straight face, but with clearly genuine malice in her voice, is a just a little bit hilarious. It's like when a 3-year-old gets super-mad at you, rears back to deliver the sickest burn he can, and then calls you a poopface.
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I've heard rethuglicans a few times in my life but that's about it. Mostly just hear them called republicans but with that spite you can feel added to it.
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I was watching with my wife and when I said Zuckerberg is a piece of poo poo she was like are you jealous? I just told her to keep watching and she’s like OH....oh ok.
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Sep 26, 2018 20:14
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ZorajitZorajit posted:More often, I just hear people using the phrase "The Democrat Party" disparaging which isn't so much disparaging as just kind of vaguely annoying and halting sound. That one's the dumbest, since you absolutely won't notice at all until you have it explained to you.
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Sep 26, 2018 21:30
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think it'd be very interesting to juxtapose the way Facebook has been in Myanmar with how so many tech companies bend over and go full Orwell when China asks them to. Look, we are staunch defenders of free speech and nothing* will change that *Except access to one of the largest markets on the planet. In that case, gently caress free speech.
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Sep 26, 2018 21:43
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tarlibone posted:The most common pejorative I hear for Democrats is "Dems" at the higher end of the etiquette scale (I can't remember the last time I saw "Dems" used in anything but a negative comment about the party or its supporters), and "libtards" at the... uh, not-so-high end of the etiquette scale. I say dems just as a lazy way of saying democrats. I do hate them, but not in the way you're getting at. "democrat party" and "demon rats" are both old dittohead poo poo
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I don’t even get Democrat party. Is there something I’m missing or are they just getting the name wrong on purpose to “own the libs”?
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GutBomb posted:I don’t even get Democrat party. Is there something I’m missing or are they just getting the name wrong on purpose to “own the libs”? That's it.
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Lycus posted:That's it. 
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The theory is that democracy and the democratic process is a good thing, but the democrat party has nothing to do with those, so use the noun instead of the adjective blah blah old man blah blah. I suppose the pro-democracy sentiment is better than the fascist stuff that's more common these days, but it's still blindly partisan garbage. I don't even see the point in trying to skew the literal name of the party into a slur. They proudly have a donkey as their mascot from the days when people were calling Jackson "Jackass". That's rich material for ridicule right there.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The theory is that democracy and the democratic process is a good thing, but the democrat party has nothing to do with those, so use the noun instead of the adjective blah blah old man blah blah. I suppose the pro-democracy sentiment is better than the fascist stuff that's more common these days, but it's still blindly partisan garbage. Do the names "Democrat" and "Republican" even have anything to do with democracy vs. republicanism? Like I'm pretty sure it has never been part of the Democratic agenda to convert the country to a purer direct democracy.
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That Facebook topic was rough. I typically am anti-businesses censoring anything on their sites, but maybe it should be different in other countries? Then again...
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Do the names "Democrat" and "Republican" even have anything to do with democracy vs. republicanism? Like I'm pretty sure it has never been part of the Democratic agenda to convert the country to a purer direct democracy. The first party was the Democratic-Republican party and then it split
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I hear ya but Facebook is a business they have every right to censor and should if they cared about anything other than greed. The worst thing about the internet is giving people anonymity to be evil and when there’s no checks on it that’s what happens cause people are shitholes.
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Invalid Validation posted:The way she emphasizes it to the camera is very much something a cringey old person would do to seem cool. That's exactly what's happening, and why it's so compellingly awful. You can just see her looking at the word "democrats" and getting all excited. All you have to do is change one letter! Democrats is only one letter away from demonrats! It's hilarious, right? Such a sick burn. They're never gonna live this one down!
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I got curious and searched on an old gun forum I used to read for the word "demonrat" The oldest I could come up with was 2013: https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showpost.php?p=10365240&postcount=26 posted:It's so sad that people think we have 2A rights. We haven't had 2A rights for a very long time. We have 2A privileges that the governmernt allows us to have. You don't have to have permission to exercise a right. When the government can tell you that you can't do something it is no longer a right. especially here in the USSK our 2A privilege is very close to being infringed out of existence. I keep seeing people saying we are winning. As much as I appreciate all the hard work that good people are doing to keep our 2A privileges it seems when 1 case is won our demonrat legislature just adds 10 more new unconstitutional laws to fight. I have no faith in the corrupt SCOTUS we have now and if we lose 1 or 2 justices our 2A privileges are as good as gone. Again I'm almost positive I read it even earlier than that but not sure where.
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Afro posted:I got curious and searched on an old gun forum I used to read for the word "demonrat" Again, this is a dittohead thing and predates the internet.
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Dumb Lowtax posted:How is an SA goon aghast about censorship, on a site where people traditionally were banned every time it was funny to do so and permabanned whenever they seemed like an rear end in a top hat Because we have a right to FREE SPEECH 
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Dumb Lowtax posted:How is an SA goon aghast about censorship, on a site where people traditionally were banned every time it was funny to do so and permabanned whenever they seemed like an rear end in a top hat Sigh... can we come to your front lawn to loudly discuss the specifics of the latest funny or perhaps insult people's clothes for no good reason at all? We are currently on Lowtax' metaphorical front lawn, where he can tell is what is or is not allowed.
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punk rebel ecks posted:That Facebook topic was rough. I typically am anti-businesses censoring anything on their sites, but maybe it should be different in other countries? Then again... I am interested in what measures the burmese government took to deal with the mass disinformation going on with Facebook, and whether they had to petition facebook to take action. I think usually a traditional media source spewing blatant lies and encouraging genocide is a very clear example of speech that needs to be curtailed.
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GutBomb posted:I don’t even get Democrat party. Is there something I’m missing or are they just getting the name wrong on purpose to “own the libs”? Right-wingers are crazy good at language warfare.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I am interested in what measures the burmese government took to deal with the mass disinformation going on with Facebook, and whether they had to petition facebook to take action. The government was/is busy enthusiastically committing the genocide
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Sep 28, 2018 01:36
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Yea they totally want ethnic cleansing, it’s a bad place to live.
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This week, for the first time I can remember, LWT dropped format and spent an entire episode talking about the story of the day. If you're one of the five people not following the Kavanaugh mess, you should definitely watch. It's a good summary of the most important political story since Nov. 2016. Edit: the whole thing is up on their youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opi8X9hQ7q8
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On the same topic, here's a pretty good article that goes into further detail about just how weak and incredible Kavanaugh's testimony was: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/how-we-know-kavanaugh-is-lying
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John seemed absolutely furious this week. I know he's always angry or upset about the main story, but this week just seemed like another level entirely.
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We all should be. Like, this is storm the castle level poo poo. This man cannot sit on the highest court in the land and he likely shouldn't even be a federal judge. The Republicans are going to ram him through however and they are doing it for no other reason than "gently caress you Dems." It's the ultimate expression of gently caress the other side first, what's good for the country is distant last. The only way to repair what's being done here is to impose Supreme Court term limits and that's never going to happen in our lifetime.
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